Professor Jan Geert Hiddink

Professor in Marine Biology

Contact info

Room: 406 Westbury Mount     Phone: 01248 382864
E-mail: j.hiddink@bangor.ac.uk
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Jan is a professor in the School of Ocean Sciences and specialise in the field of marine benthic ecology. For his PhD he studied the adaptive value of migrations and nursery use for the intertidal bivalve Macoma balthica at the Department of Marine Biology at Groningen University, and he received the Annual VLIZ North Sea Award 2002 from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) for his PhD thesis. After completing his PhD in 2002, he started a postdoc at Bangor University, where he studied the impact of bottom trawling on the functioning of benthic invertebrate communities. He joined the lecturing staff in SOS in 2006 and was promoted to Reader in 2013. He was awarded a Personal Chair in 2017.  JGH has published >95 peer reviewed papers since 2001. His grant capture since 2006 totals over £7M.

His research broadly examines the effect of human disturbance on benthic ecosystems, including fishing and climate change. He has a broad interest in other topics and has been working on research ranging from cattle trampling wader nests on saltmarshes to acoustic monitoring of cetaceans. His research is focussed on gaining a quantitative understanding of the effect of disturbance (such as exploitation and climate change) on the biodiversity and functioning of marine benthic communities, and on how such effects can be mitigated. JGH aims to increase understanding of ecosystem functioning and distribution patterns by comparing empirical data with predictions of ecological models. Much of this research has focused ont the effect of bottom trawling on benthic ecosystems.

Research Areas

  1. Published

    Trawl Exposure and Protection of Seabed Fauna at Large Spatial Scales

    Mazor, T., Pitcher, C. R., Ellis, N., Rochester, W., Jennings, S., Hiddink, J., McConnaughey, R., Kaiser, M., Parma, A., Suuronen, P., Kangas, M. & Hilborn, R., Nov 2017, In: Diversity and Distributions. 23, 11, p. 1280-1291

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  2. Published

    Destructive Fishing: an expert-driven definition and exploration of this quasi-concept

    McCarthy, A. H., Steadman, D., Richardson, H., Murphy, J., Benbow, S., Brian, J. I., Brooks, H., Costa-Domingo, G., Hazin, C., McOwen, C., Walker, J., Willer, D., Abdi, M., Auster, P. J., Bealey, R., Bensted-Smith, R., Broadburn, K., Carvalho, G., Collinson, T., Erinosho, B., Fabinyi, M., Febrica, S., Forbi, W. N., Garcia, S. M., Goad, D., Goldsworthy, L., Govan, H., Heaphy, C., Hiddink, J. G., Hosch, G., Kachelriess, D., Kinch, J., Lancaster, A. M. S. N., Le Manach, F., Matthews, T., Medellin-Ortiz, A., Morgan, A., Motta, H., Marua, H., Namboothri, N., Ndiritu, E., Passfield, K., Pilcher, N. J., Portus, J. O., Rguez-Baron, J. M., Robertson, M., Sharma, A., Suazo, C. G., Tamini, L. L., Vilata-Simon, J. & Mukherjee, N., 28 Mar 2024, In: Conservation Letters.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Choosing best practices for managing impacts of trawl fishing on seabed habitats and biota

    McConnaughey, R. A., Hiddink, J. G., Jennings, S., Pitcher, R., Kaiser, M., Suuronen, P., Sciberras, M., Rijnsdorp, A. D., Collie, J., Mazor, T., Amoroso, R. O., Parma, A. & Hilborn, R., Mar 2020, In: Fish and Fisheries. 21, 2, p. 319-337 19 p.

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  5. Published

    Acoustic detection probability of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, with static acoustic dataloggers in Cardigan Bay, Wales

    Nuuttila, H. K., Thomas, L., Hiddink, J. G., Meier, R., Turner, J. R., Bennell, J. D., Tregenza, N. J. C. & Evans, P. G. H., Sept 2013, In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 134, 3, p. 2596-2609

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Estimating effective detection area of passive, static acoustic data loggers from playback experiments with cetacean vocalisations

    Nuuttila, H. K., Brundiers, K., Dahne, M., Koblitz, J. C., Thomas, L., Courtene-Jones, W., Evans, P. G. H., Turner, J. R., Bennell, J. D. & Hiddink, J. G., Dec 2018, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9, 12, p. 2362-2371

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Identifying Foraging Behaviour of Wild Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) with Static Acoustic Dataloggers

    Nuuttila, H. K., Meier, R., Evans, P. G. H., Turner, J. R., Bennell, J. D. & Hiddink, J. G., 2013, In: Aquatic Mammals. 39, 2, p. 147-161

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Priorities to inform research on marine plastic pollution in Southeast Asia

    Omeyer, L. C. M., Duncan, E. M., Aiemsomboon, K., Beaumont, N., Bureekul, S., Cao, B., Carrasco, L. R., Chavanich, S., Clark, J., Cordova, M. R., Couceiro, F., Cragg, S. M., Dickson, N., Frailler, P., Ferraro, G., Fletcher, S., Fong, J., Ford, A., Guttierrez, T., Hamid, F. S., Hiddink, J. G., Hoa, P. T., Holland, S. L., Jones, L., Jones, N., Koldewey, H., Lauro, F. M., Lee, C., Lewis, M., Marks, D., Matallana-Surget, S., Mayorga-Adame, C. G., McGeehan, J., Fesser, L., Michie, L., Miller, M. A., Mohamad, Z. F., Nor, N. H. M., Muller, M., Neill, S., Nelms, S. E., Onda, D. F., Ong, J. J. L., Pariatamby, A., Phang, S. C., Quiliam, R., Robins, P., Salta, M., Sartimbul, A., Shakuto, S., Skov, M., Taboada, E. B., Todd, P. A., Toh, T. C., Valiyaveettil, S., Viyakran, V., Wonnapinij, P., Wood, L. E., Yong, C. L. X. & Godley, B. J., 1 Oct 2022, In: Science of the Total Environment. 841, 156704.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Stable isotope signatures reveal small-scale spatial separation in populations of European sea bass

    Overy, T. L., Cambie, G., Kaiser, M. J., Marriott, A. L., Fox, J., Lambert, G., Hiddink, J. G., Overy, T., Bennet, S. A., Leng, M. J. & McCarthy, I. D., 21 Mar 2016, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 546, p. 213-223

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Elucidating the surface macroplastic load, types and distribution in mangrove areas around Cebu Island, Philippines and its policy implications

    Paler, M. K. O., Tabanag, I. D. F., Siacor, F. D. C., Geraldino, P. J. L., Walton, M., Dunn, C., Skov, M., Hiddink, J. G. & Taboada, E. B., 10 Sept 2022, In: Science of the Total Environment. 838, 3, 156408.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review